García-Esclavón v. Arabia de Goyco
García-Esclavón v. Arabia de Goyco
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The object of the snit in this case was that a sale made
The court, in rendering judgment, fixed the amount of interest, as we see it, following the words of the deed, and therefore we are inclined to agree with the appellee that any discussion of the interest is frivolous, inasmuch as the complainant obtained exactly what he sought in the complaint.
We cannot, however, agree with the appellee that the appeal is frivolous with respect to the failure to concede attorney’s fees. While there is a fair probability that the court acted wisely in refusing to concede the fees, this was the principal question submitted to the trial court, which was decided against the contentions of the complainant and appellant.
Although there is some jurisprudence to the effect that an appeal should be directed to the specific part of the judgment complained of, yet our statute does not necessarily lend itself to such a construction. Section 296 of the Code of Civil Procedure provides: “An appeal is taken by filing with the secretary of the court in which the judgment or order appealed from is entered, a notice stating the appeal from the same, or some specific part thereof, and serving a similar notice on the adverse party, or his attorney.” Under this language, we feel bound to hold that the appellant may appeal from the entire judgment and raise any incidental questions. We find nothing -in our decisions or the decisions of California to the' contrary.
■The motion to dismiss must be overruled.
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